Saturday, June 27, 2015

my week

6/13/15

Well this week was good!! It was a little bit stressful with all
the office work but all in all it keeps going...the only bad thing that
happened is that this week was the mission counsel.....and unfortunately that
brought with it a new rule....we are not allowed to play sports on the mission
now. No basketball, volleyball, or ultimate frisbee...I was rather disappointed
but then I realized that in murmuring I was being like Lamen and Lemuel and
just decided to go and do it like Nephi. Besides, its only 9 more weeks ;P
hahahahahahaha but no I’m not trunky....I’m prepared :P At least that is what I told president and he
started to laugh :P

It was interesting in
the fact that now I have like a social security number here in Brazil!!! I am a
citizen...except not :P

We were teaching the little
ones again this week :) It is always a really cool experience because they
understand so much and are so pure. It was interesting because as we were
talking about the Book of Mormon and how you have to pray to receive the answer
the 10 year old was like. ``but how will I feel??´´ It was interesting because
she was so interested in what she would feel when so many of our investigators
don’t ask any questions like the little kids!

We are teaching the
Ecuadorians still and that is interesting. My companion teaches in Spanish
because they understand it better....and that is when I realized that Spanish
and Portuguese aren’t as close as I thought they were. But it was still good.
It was one of the few moments when I was dying not really knowing what to say
but it worked out fine in the end. It was interesting because I felt that I
should speak a little bit stronger to the husband. The wife is truly a saint!
She pays her tithing, studies the scriptures, prays very well, and is trying to
become more like Christ. He does nothing. So we talked about the change that
the gospel makes in us. We asked him what he would lose if he started reading,
going to church, and practicing the gospel? He said nothing, and then we told
him that he would lose a lot if he didn’t start practicing the gospel now! It was
a good moment and the spirit was strong :)

I know that this gospel
is true! That the spirit is the teacher!
What we are here to do as missionaries is invite the spirit into the
homes of people so that they can feel thetrue happiness that comes from
following our savior Jesus Christ!! He lives and Loves each and every one of us
:)